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COOKING LESSONS FOR WORKING MEN'S V/IYES. By Mrs. Helpful- ircthing lovelier can be found In woman than to »tudy household good, Aud ood works in her husband to promota. L II I.HK USK3 AND ABUSES OF TIXXEO MK.VTS. Many people are greatly prejudiced against tinned meats, vegetables, and fruits, and 1 Ibiiilc nobody could be more so than I wan until about two year ago, when a friend asked me to dinner, the bill of fare being as follows:- 1st, salmon cooked like my second recipe; 3nd, beef done as i advise in my present recipe: 3rd, curried rabbit; and 1th. a jovely pudding made of dried apple rings and trusts of bread and tops of loaves. Then for jessert a dish of tinned apricots. I was tstonisbed to find that all these dishes were made from tillned or preserved stuff. 1' am now as great an advocate of them ps I used to be an opponent. I asked )V friend to tell me exactly how she prepared the dinner, and having made a similar dinner myself to the entire satisfac- tion of my friends, I can now recommend all you working men's wives, for whose benefit I am writing, to try my recipes, which I have most conscientiously tried to make lucid and valuable. I wrote two or three reoipes to the Weekly Mail, signed I, Mair Arfon," a year or o ago, and, as I cannot improve upon them, I repeat them in this lesson SAVOURY DISH OF TINNED 3EKF. Take one pound tin of beef, one i--11,. of suet. one pound of dour, salt, pepper, parsley, one onion, and a bit of butter the size of a walnut, Make a pudding paste with the suet chopped very fine and the flour, add a pinch of salt, and mix well together with cold water. Batter a basin, line it with the paste about jialf an inch thick, reserving a piece for the top. Chop the beef up finely, adding to it a teaspoonful of salt aud a dash of pepper. Now chop up enough parsley, lbyme, and onion, together with the butter yid a tablespoonful of finely-sifted bread- Irtinibs, to fill a small teacup. Put a layer of chopped beef into your lined basin, sprinkle the stuffing over, another layer of beef, and so on. until the basin is full, when pour in half a teacupful of water or gravy put on the paste-top fiour well a pudding cloth, tie it over the top of the basin, plunge the whole into boiling water, and take it up, done, in tootir. HOW TO MAKE A TIN OF SALMOX GO A LONG WAY AND LOOK NICK. Cut off the brown part of a penny bun and finely crumble the v/hite. With a spoon mix well all the salmon and crumbs together (the liquid to be mixed with it), add half a teaspoonful of salt, a dash of pepper, a squeeze of lemon, the yolk of one egg (reserving the white), and beat all well up. Then get a tablespoon, givase it well, and slip off into a buttered flat tin dish a spoonful of the mix- ture. Do this until all "is used. beat up the reserved white of the eg-g and brush lightly over ca-Ii little pat. l'nt in a rather quiek oven for about ten minutes. Garnish with parsley. ANOTHER NICK SALMON DINNER. a tin of salmon, and ten minutes before you want it dished up put it into a saucepan of boiling water up to about half an inch of the tin. Before you do this, how- ever, pour of ahon two tablespoonfuls of the liquor, to be used for making the following sauce, which has to b* poured over the fish when it is dished up. The saimon does not want any more cooking, so only put the saucepan over, and not on, the tire, just to warm it up. To nuke the sauce, make a sonoo, h flour paste in the basin into which your saimon liquor was pouted; add a heaped teaspoonful of finely chopped parsl'-y, a pinch of salt, a dash of pepper, nd either a teaspoonful of anchovy sauce, York- shirl) rdish, or vinegar..Mix ail together well in the basin, pour about a teacupful of boiling water on to the mixtuie, gently stirring it about until quite mixed give it a boii for five minutes in a skillet, stirring all around all the time; pour over the salmon, and serve with potatoes boiled and tossed until they are like balls of enow. Of course, a tin of preserved I)-as would greatly im- prove this dinner. 'i hey are managed) tttis: --l)raiii the peis carefully into a basin of waier (cold), with a teaspoonful of salt; leav.3 them in until you bave a skilleM'til of boiling water, into which a sprig of mint and a pinch of moist or a lump of loaf sugar is put; boil quickly for about six minutes; drain, add a bit of butter as big as a small nut, and a da<h of pepper, and shake well up. i\"w this is a nice pudding to eat after this good dinner. call it L-CDDIXG SA NT, .Becaiu-e I iiret made it and liked it on a St. David's Day. l.in« a small pie-dish with j light pastry, and nut it on otto side until you bav- prepared the following mixture — Melt one •mt!ce of butter, beat up the, yolks of two eggs (reserving the whites), pound two ounces of y.hite snpar, anl and chop tinely bail ?u ounce of sweet almonds grate the rimi »r.d sf^neeze out the juice of half alemcn. Pu' H1; these ingredients into a lined stew- pan and stir them over ihe fire until they are Oil fh- point of, but not quite, boiling. Pour in.o h;, lined pic-di.^h and bake until the pust-i is done. Beat up the whites of the eggs a frothy snow and add to the pud- j di before taking it out of the oven. | Strew a little powdered sugar over it.

NOTES. i HINTS TO 'HOUSKWIVKS. For cleaning kid glover, there is nothing to fee compared to benzine collas, which maybe used xvith equal effect for the removal of gre^s". paint, oil, &c., from clothing of any mat- rial; a great advantage in the U3 of this fluid is that it leaves no odour behind. A. few drops of sulphuric acid in water will take the status of fruit, dyes, stove blacking, &c., from the bands without injuring them. Care must ba taken, however, not to drop it upon the clothes. It will remove the colour from woollen, and eat holes in cotton fabrics. A very easy way to clean a gold chain, pin, rini, or other piece of gold jew liesy is with a litvie ammonia in water. Dip the chain in tb. water and move back and forth a few time1;, then wif< it dry on a sof* linen cloth, robbing gently bat wt.il, until no more bUck comes off. In cage of rings, be careful not to expose any stones that can be injured by ifcem, such as pearls, t the action of water j or ammonit fumea, I Oilcloth should never be scrubbed with a Jtrjfb, nor wtshwi with soap or hot water, as tbis will la,, off the pattern and make it; ertch. Only use a soft cloth and cold or lcke- i warn *al r. If the c&la'jr is a dark otv, il.' i. improved after being "ashM h, Jjtll >>;iij; or e oil being rubbed il1, 7r .1ún, ware fall/, }".]J amount of beeswax fur- pentine may be ulad, but this requires a good t deal of dry rubbing afterwards, or the surface will be sticky and show footmarks. "V EDITOR;

QUERIES. 178, WINDSOR CAKE. A recipe for this will oblige OGo. Milford. 179.—WOOL BALLS FOR BALL FRINGE. Will some reader be good enough to tell me how to make wool balls for ball fringe ? Cwmparlc. SHETLAND. 180.—GLAZE FOR HAM AND TONGUE. How can I make a glaze for a ham or a tongue ? Is it difficult or expensive ? Llanelli/. JANE. 181.—GREASE EXTRACTOR. I should be greatly obliged if someone would give me an infallible extractor of grease from clothing. PATIENCE. Llanidloes. 182.—To CURE BACON. I should be giad if some reader of the Weelly Mail would kindly give me through the Ii Household column a good way to cure bacon. COTTAGER. Royyiett.

REPLIES. WELSH IIABBIT. (Query Iso. 156.) Toast the bread on both sides then toast the cheese on one side, lay it on the toast, and with a hot iron brown the other side. It may be rubbed over with mustard. This is a Welsh rabbit." COUNTRY COUSIN may also like a recipe for English rabbit :-Toast; a slice of bread on both sides, lay it on a plate before the fire, pour a glass of red wine over it, and let it soak the wine up; then cut some cheese up very thin, lay it very thickly over the bread, and put it in a tin oven before the lire, and it will be toasted and browned presently. Serve it very hot. Wrexham. GWENVXEN GWYNEDD. Talíe hair a pound of either Parmesan, Gorgonzola, or Cheshire cheese, grated or erviii-ibled; and put about two tablespoonfuls ] of beer into an enamelled frying-pan. When the beer is hot, add the cheese, with a little pepper, and stir it quickly until it is all of one thickness. Then pour it over some well buttered toast aud serve very hot. This is enough for six persons. N'et, A. CEITIIOG JIU(IHES, ApPLE BUTTER. (Query No. 157.) Nioe apple butter is excellent with cold meat. Use tart apples, and to three pocks, after they are peeled and quartered, allow Olbs. of brown sugar and two gallons of water. Let the water come to a boil, and then add the sugar when it is dissolved put in the apples. Stir them constantly with a large wooden spoon. After they are soft, let them simmer until they are thick and do not seem watery, If you wish to add any spices you may do so. Cinnamon, nutnug, and a little ginger are liked by some people. ALICE. To CUT GLASS. (Query No. 158.) Dip a piece of worsted (such as stockings are mended with) into a little methylated: spirits, then tie it exactly where you want the glass cut, set fire to it, and just as the flattie is going out dip the glass into cold water, and it will separate neatly at the tied part. MRS. IIKLPFUL. If glass be held under water, and a strong, sharp pair of gcissors be used, it can be cut to any shape or design required. A black line should first of all be drawn 0:1 the glass to indicate the direction it is to be cut; then,' with the left hand, it should be plunged deep into the clear water to allow of the operation being seen distinctly. That is an effective method of treating common glass. Another plan is to dip a worsted thread into spirit? of turpentine, And tie it close round the glass whence it is illtendd to be cut; then set lire to the thread, and while it is burning plunge the glass into the cold water, or well wet the thread with it. The glass will break easily in the direotion of the thread. J'LUMBKR. Cardiff.

THE HEAD OF THE GRAPHIC." |_F>Y CLrnniTR In Mr. W. L. Thomas (who is art editor of the present weekly) the Daily Graphic has a most able anu charming progenitor. Few shrewder men have founded nglish news- papers. lie has gone through the journalistic 1 mill. He was in Paris at sixteen, apprenticed tj wood-engraving, together with his brother. Both were tempted to go to New York, but were back again in a couple of years, and we find William Thomas studying art in Home at "le time that city was invested first by the Garibaldians, and then by the French. lie re- j turned to England, and, after further studying, y,. n g, launched out in business for himself as a wood engraver. In an ambitious mood he con- j ceived the idea of the Graphic. He bad not a couple of hundred pounds in the world ■ he found he would have to throw up his engraving business, with an income of I;SOO a year and be had, moreover, recently taken upon himself the dual responsibility of: marriage. However, he was blessed with numerous friends and relations who trusted him, and the first number of the Graphic was issued on his birthday, Dec. 4,1660. Now, twenty years later, and within a month exactly of another birthday, he founds the Daily Graphic, which, if it realises its ideal —in the opinion of its critics it has yet to do so-will be one of the wonders of modern journalism.

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o- QUERIES. 63.—HOUND SHOULDEKS. How can I cure round shoulders ? Newport. PATER. 54.—DEATH BY SUICIDE. How does suicide affect insurance policies? Caerphilly. P. T, M, 55.—To CLEAN HORXS. With what can I best clean a pair of stag antlers P BRIC-A-BBAC. Llant wit-Major. 56,-lInroROt:S POETRY. Can anyone recommend me a good, cheap book of miscellaneous humorous poetry? Tredegar, C. NO. 57.—DIALECT RECITATIONS. I should be glad to know if there are pub- lished any readings or recitations in the Pembrokeshire dialect ? If so, where can they be obtained ? CONSTANT PIEADEU. Tenby. 58.—MIXED POETRY. Will any reader be good enough to give me a good specimen of mixed poetry-verses, I mean, in which every line is from a different poet, and so arranged as to make rhyme ? Llanelhl. TIN-PLAXK. 50.—THE OUTPUT OF COAL. Several correspondents recently gave in General Notes and Queries ligores relative to the probable dura- tion of the English aud Welsh coalfields. I should now like to know (1) what is the estimated amount of the world s total output; and (2) the amount the various individual countries yield. Can any reader supply the information ? Some friends and I have an argument upon the Doint. Pontypridd. L ¿ CYMRO.

-n- REFUSES A KNIGHTHOOD GETS A BARONETCY. [EY CIXEMTS."] London has once more to thank a munifi- cent unknown for one of those princely gifts which occasionally astonish the world. Last year it was money to enlarge the National Gallery and to build dwellings for the poor now, only last week, Sir W illiam Savory— whose baronetcy, by the way, dates from January 1, 1890-the senior surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, announces that he has received £ 100,000 from an intimate friend, who desires to remain anonymons, for the purpose of founding a Hospital Convalescent Home. It is hoped the proposed sanatorium will accommodate 800 to 1,000 patients every year, each patient remaining an inmate for an average period of three weeks. Now, of course, London is all agog to know who is Sir William's mysterious beneficent unknown. Sir W. Savory, who had the honour to announce the benefaction, may be congratulated upon having at last received an honour commensurate with the position which he holds in the medical pro- fession. He has before now refused a knight- hood.

SERIOUS DISASTER AT SUNDERLAND. Shipping on Fire in the River. Naprow Escape of a Card iff Tug. About twelve o'clock at noon on Wednesday the people employed on the weir in the vicinity of Messrs J. L. Thompson's shipyard, Sunderland, were startled at a sudden leap of flame from the river to a height of about twenty feet and to a length of almost 300 vardf. It appears that the >t. amer Wild Flower, wh cil was built some twelve months ngo for carrying oil in bulk, was in the river for repairs, find wAs discharging her water ballast. It is thought some oil must have got into the bilg", so that the water and the oil mixed was being pumped in!o the river. Alongside of the Wild Flower were the steamship Douglas, the steamship Deronda. and a tug- boat named the Earl of Dumfries. There was also close at hand the newly-built steamer Park- field, and it is supposed that a hot rivet fell from the last-named vessel into the river, and thus set fire to the oil. At once the Amies arose to a great height and completely enveloped the Douglas and the tugboat, and also seriously burnt the Deronda. The Wild Flower was removed to the centre of the liver as soon as possible, and the Fire Queen and the Fire Harrow were quickly upon the spot and threw water upon the burnmg vessels. The laTJor Quay of Messrs. J. L. Thompson was burnt to the extent of 50 y irds, and the fire-hose belonging to the yard was brought to bear upon this. A man was seen to jump from one of the burning vessels, and before he could be rescued lie had sunk, and was drowned. The tide, happily was flowing in the right direciion to prevent wlmt must have been a dreadful culamity. A short. distance to the other side of the Wild Flower were eight or nine wooden vesselq, and, had the tide been on the outward turn, these must have been wrecked. As it was, the tidi*, which was running prttty swifilv, carried the finning oil to a great distance. The flimes on the river were soon out through the exhaustion of the oil, but the vessels continued burning for about an hour. The Wild Flower, which was ashore at Southwold recently and had arrived at Sunderland for i-epairv,, was the most severely damaged, the hull being burnt, the deck properties destroyed, and the m ists and rigging burnt away. The Deronda and the Douglas, both of Sunderland, were similarly damaged, though not to the same extent-, and the tug also suffered in the sume way. The man who was drownetl leaped from the steamer Deronda at a time when it wac abhz. His name was John Thompson, aged 20. His body was recovered. Two other- who leaped into the water to escape the flames got safely ashore. It was some hours before the river assumed its normal appearance.

A TERRIBLE TALE OF THE SEA. Shipwrecked Mariners Rescued Lloyd's agent at Stanley, Falkland Islands, reported by telegraph in Octobcr last that the Arethusn, from the Tync for Valparaiso, had been abandoned off the Falkland?, and that part of the crew had been saved and landed at Stanley after suffering great hardships, and that another boat, containing the mate and thirteen hands, was missing. This missing boat, according to later information from Valparaiso, dated the 21&t of N .vemher, was picked up on October 12 about 150 mnesoff the Filklande. The oecupaots of 1lw boiit were in a shocking condition. They comprised thu first mate, boatswain, cook, sailmaker, two boys, Find six seaine". The cook was lying dead in the bo!torn of the boat, the mate was lashed down, having been delirious for some day?, and he died two days after the rescue. One of the boys was only just alive, and he died after the boat was picked up. The men's feet were badly swollen, iind they were unable to walk. The feet of the apprentice boy had to be amputated.

THE QUEEN OF ROUMANIA WRITING A WELSH STORY. The TJuchfuest correspondent of the Exchange 17t,legrapit Company "ate., tlmt Queen Elizabeth of Rt)u ),In in-" C,,i riiien 8y!va"—is writing a romau'ic *'iry in which she places the scene of notion ui Walt-e.

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ITEMS FROM THE GAY j CITY. [PROM CU-13 0W5 FARIS COEEESTOXDE^T ] Influenza P!ays Sad Havoc. The holiday season has not been gay. Apart from the suddenly cold and cruel weather, the endemic has left deep traces on the population, streaked with not a little mourning. In the last week of 1868 th« number of deaths wae 082; for the corre- spending period of 1889, 2,334. That fully explains where we are now. Not only the marriages have decreased, but, stranger still, the number of births. However, the women of France are proverbially famous for tact in presence of difficnlties. Hospitals and hospices are overcrowded. Doctors are struck down as If they were simple patients, All public services are driven into a topsy- turvy condition. Theatres are closed, not only because the artists are on the sick list, but the public declines to run the risk of catching the influenza from neighbouring spectators. In the, churches the members of the congregations have the air to survey each other with a "Stand-a-side-I-am-healthier than-theu" look. < Prevention Better than Cure. The Postmaster-Genera} appeals to the public for indulgence in the case of delay in the distri bntion of the letters, the employes being ill. Happily, the soldiers escape the malady, but they are young, robust, well-fed, and warmly clad. Dr. Proust, the Inspector General of Sanitation, has handed in his re- port on the endemic. He states it is aninflaenza similar to what raged in 1733-42, and 1702. In itself it is not very deadly, causing not more than an increase of one per 1,000 over the ordinary death-rate. It is very dangerous for the aged and those infirm from other diseases, by inducing complications. They are pre- cautions, Dot remedies, that are requisite to prescribe. Avoid cold by remaining warmly clad; live generously. If attacked take to bed at once, and keep warm, moderating diet accordingly. After a few days, convalescence will set iD. This is the dangerous stage, as, if the invalid goes out too soon, or thinly clad, so as to catch cold, inflammation of the lungs may be expected for a certainty. Premature Buria!. In the existing augmentation of interments, a writer demands that care should be taken to avoid premature burials, and suggests that i the German plan of having mortuaries in cemeteries, where tbe dsad can remain some time in their unclosed coffins before being buried or incinerated, be adopted. "Help," from the grave, is, it appears, an actuality, as grave- diggers have heard that appeal but have arrived too late to rescue. When Victor Emmanuel visited Paris he was captivated by a pretty actress, and in due coursa he pensioned her off. She became famous, not by her liaison with the late King of Italy, but some time after her death it became necessary to change her remains into another cofKn to suit her new tomb. The appalling fact was then dis- covered that she bad bitten through the winding-sheet into her shoulder. The doctor who certifies a person to be dead when alive, and so sent to premature burial, ought to be condemned to replace his victim in the coffin. • » France does not Recognise Pauperism, During the last night of the old year and throughout New Year's Day Paris was literally invaded, not so much by vagrants as by meritorious indigence. Whole families, in rags, many bare-headed—never bare-footed -with haggard features, deep-lined by hunger and disease, traversed the boulevards, stopping before every place where there was plight and life. It was unexpectedly painful, and clearly shows that the clumsy, eompli- cated, and Middle Ages system of relieving the poor in France sadly wants reform. The French like to boast that they have no paupers as other nations have this is the ostrich view, and that deceives none but themselves. In promiscuous almsgiving humanity is alike. °, iYe to all who ask if yon can don't examine if you be imposed upon/ was the advice of Charles Lamb. The French ought to put their sentimentalism in their pocket and revive the Poor-law system —the workhouse, as organised by the First Napoleon, but wh ch fell through because devoured by official expenses. I Inly three of Napoleon's workhouses exist-at Versailles, Lyons, and Bordeaux.

STABBED IN THE BACK. Shocking Murder by a Hungarian Editor, A shocking casa of murder is reported from Neusati, a town in Southern Hungary, on the left b.ink of the Danube. This place is mostly' in- habited by Servians, descendants of tliose who, led by the Patriarch of Tpek, fl d, after the Turkish invasion of their Fatherl md, to Hungary. The leader of these Servians in their political and national struggles against, the Austrian, and, later against the Hungarian, Government was Dr. Svetozir Miletics, the editor of the Zastaca (or iStanf(G)d), published in Neusatz a j.ltll nil w"ich his of: "11 exercised a decisive inflnenco over the f.iie of the Kingdom of Si-rvia. Dr. Milet ie's daughter, Militzrt, mm rii-d Dr. Jasa Tomics, a talented but passionate young man, who thus suo- efcdfid to the ownership and editorship of the Zasiaua. Five years ago a number of moderate Servian politicians resolved to bring- out inottier Sylvian daily in Nousatsi, the Brttnik (Defer/a). and appointed M. Michael Dimitrievics a editor. Af: eï thr. fashion of the' Hunijaiian rres, the two papers soon began daily to publish gro s in-ults on the staff of the oilier. Eayh editor accused the other of various crime*, and the clinax was reached by the Branik calumniating Madame Tomics. H'r husband accordingly challenged M. Diiniti-ievicg. Tho latter declined the chalh-nso, and declared his adversary unworthy of a duel. M. Tomics thereupon flew into a raap, and laying wait at the rniiway station for M. Dimiti ievics, at length met him »nd stabbed him from behind. He died in the course of an hour. M. Tomics has been at rested. -r

FOUND DEAD IN A BOX. Strange Death of a Foui,teen-Yeir-O(d Youth, A boy at Lillo has just met, with ti,v same fate AS the Iwroine in the fad song of the Mistletoe Bough." Louis Hetbanl, fourteen years old had been keeping the New Year in a tavern with his uncie nnd iluilt. He soon afterwards disappeared, aii(i a most. diligent search was made for him to no purpose, until it occurred to his uncle the next. day to look inside a large box which was kept in a loft. There, to his horror, he found his nephew's corps". It is supposed that Louis Her- baut felt unwell nfter the merrymaking, and that he chose the box as a quiet place where he could tie down without the ri-k of interference. The lid fell down accidentally, and he was suffocated.

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